Substantive law

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comparison with procedural law

...comprises rules about jurisdiction, pleading and practice, evidence, appeal, execution of judgments, representation of counsel, costs, and other matters. Procedural law is commonly contrasted with
substantive law, which constitutes the great body of law and defines and regulates legal rights and duties. Thus, whereas
substantive law would describe how two people might enter into a contract,...

criminal law

Substantive criminal law is composed of the following elements: the definitions of the types of offenses that are held to be punishable; the classification of crimes (as, for example, felonies and misdemeanours in the United States, or
crime,
délit, and
contravention in...